Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form

Contents

• Introduction;
• 1. The idea of cyclic form;
• 2. Musical history and self-consciousness: the Octet, Op. 20;
• 3. Returning home: the E major Piano Sonata, Op. 6;
• 4. In search of lost time: the A minor Quartet, Op. 13;
• 5. Overcoming the past: the E flat Quartet, Op. 12;
• 6. Cyclicism in Mendelssohn's mature music.